Possible genotype-phenotype correlations in Niemann-Pick type C patients and miglustat treatment
| Autor: | Hasan Önal, Nafiye Emel Çakar |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
congenital
hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities Mutation medicine.medical_specialty business.industry nutritional and metabolic diseases Disease Gene mutation medicine.disease_cause Intracellular cholesterol transport medicine.disease Gastroenterology Neurology Cholestasis hemic and lymphatic diseases Internal medicine Miglustat Lysosomal storage disease Medicine Neurology (clinical) NPC1 business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Ideggyógyászati szemle. 74:139-144 |
| ISSN: | 2498-6208 0019-1442 |
| DOI: | 10.18071/isz.74.0139 |
| Popis: | Background and purpose Niemann-Pick type C is a rare lysosomal storage disease caused by impaired intracellular cholesterol transport. The autosomal recessive disease is caused by mutations in NPC1 or NPC2 genes. Methods Clinical-laboratory features, genotype-phenotype correlation and miglustat treatment response of our patients diagnosed with early infantile Niemann-Pick type C were evaluated. Results In this article, four Niemann-Pick type C patients diagnosed in the early infantile period are presented. Common features of our patients were hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, cholestasis and retardation in motor development. Patients 1 and 2 are twins, with homozygous mutation c.2776G>A p.(Ala926Thr) in NPC1 gene and severe lung involvement. Lung involvement, which is mostly associated with NPC2 gene mutation in the literature, was severe in our patients and they died early. In patients 3 and 4, there were respectively c.2972del p.(Gln991Argfs*6) mutation in NPC1 gene and c.133C>T p.(Gln45*) homozygous mutation in NPC2 gene. In these two patients, improvement in neurological findings were observed with treatment of miglustat. Conclusion In our twin patients, severe lung involvement was observed. Two of our four early infantile Niemann-Pick type C patients exhibited neurological gains with miglustat treatment. |
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